Introduction: according to the ethology theory mother infant separation immediately after birth can interfere with the infants innate behaviors for the initiation of breastfeeding. The aim of this study was to the effect of an interventional program based on the Theory of Ethology on infant breast feeding competence Materials and Methods: 114 primiparous, Iranian, healthy, full term mothers bet...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the growth pattern of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) infants (birthweight <1500 g) during hospital stay and to compare the growth of Small for gestational age (SGA) and Appropriate for gestational age (AGA) infants. STUDY DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING. Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in Northern India. PARTICIPANTS A cohort of 97 VLBW inf...

Industrial cities are a particularly dynamic element of nineteenth century Walloon demography. The new slightly hybrid urban model, grown from small rural communities but which never looked like classical cities, was characterised by a very quick demographic growth, resulting from a high number of births and a relatively low mortality together with a relatively high in-migration (Eggerickx, 199...

objective: to determine the pattern of breastfeeding in infants who conceived by assisted reproductive techniques (art). materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study, 312 infants were selected by the non-random consecutive method from art infants who referred by royan institute to child health research department. infants were born between septembers 2007and september 2009 in tehran. infan...

This article examines the relationship between access to contraceptives and population growth rates in Cameroon and Zimbabwe. Although these two countries share the same continent, their individual progress on offering contraceptives to their citizens varies greatly. In Cameroon, the national health care system is largely ineffective and less enthusiastic regarding the use of Western Medicine, ...